Explanation from the source: How it works: The period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. The length of the longest pendulum has been adjusted so that it executes 51 oscillations in this 60 second period. The length of each successive shorter pendulum is carefully adjusted so that it executes one additional oscillation in this period. Thus, the 15th pendulum (shortest) undergoes 65 oscillations. When all 15 pendulums are...

It’s Lego week here at the Fist! Wired.com has a feature about a Lego creation that can create things out of Legos. Here come the self-replicating robots, folks. Let’s get to the singularity asap, so we can all be murdered by iPhone-powered Lego robots! Software engineer by day, Lego maniac by night Will Gorman has created the MakerLegoBot, a machine that can take a virtual 3-D model and assemble it using Lego bricks. The...

I don’t know how I stumble upon these sorts of things. I’d rather not. It’s like, “Oh, fer Chrissakes, the crushing of various foods by girls with dainty painted feet and spiked heels has become a fetish genre in its own right…” Are there dudes, somewhere, who spank their monks to this stuff? Of course. I just know it, sight unseen. Some probably even pay money for “private shows.” By...